Oh my gosh, Ross!!!

[agogoboots]

You won't believe what I did! I DRAG RACED! Yeah, ME, Ross!

I was asking some friends to put my signs on their car and they said, "Hey, you race." So I did a test and tune run and I was the only girl racing and this 17 year old kid came running up to me yelling "Race ME! Race ME!" maybe because he had a truck the same color as mine and I have a white Scooby-Doo on my back window and he had a white dog on his back window ...and it was SO COOL! Now I'M A DRAG RACING CHICK IN A TRUCK! (And it's free advertising.)
*jumps up and down twirls around*
It was FUNNER THAN SHIT, Ross!!!
*dance, spin*

I'll have to go back with the camera!!! (Ok. I'm excited.)

[agogoboots]

I need a helment of my own! I need a faster car, Ross! I need nitro and flames! I need SPONSORS!

(Go ahead. Say, "Crazy Redneck Realtor in High Heels".)
:cheer

[agogoboots]

I'm going to take a sedative ....and trrrrrry to go to sleep. I have morning appointments.

[r0ss]

LOL! Sounds like fun.

[happy is here]

LOL, Terri :)

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[george14toes]

it is fun isnt it? you shoud run about 5 test runs so you can see what your times are and get your reaction time down pat, theeeeeennnnn bracket race , most places it cost 10 to 25 bucks to enter and well you think doing it for fun is something aint nuttin like it when its for real. it doesnt matter how fast your truck is its your time that counts

[10x]

"Crazy Redneck Realtor in High Heels"

Hey I know a few of them. Fun folks.

[chococake]

Sounds like fun Teri, good to see you so excited. One thing though, could you drop the Redneck part? I hope eventually you won't be. :b

[socrfan2]

That's really cool!!

[agogoboots]

I'm not a redneck choco. Plus it's all in perception. What makes one a redneck to one, does not always make one a redneck to another. It's such a vague term really.

The little blue haired ladies in my new office did not find my "advertising plan" very amusing. Nor did most anyone else I shared it with. :(

However ...(don't know if I'll ever get around to this) but I would like to get with the track owner and come up with a release of some kind (they have their own a'ready), then get with the police. I'd like to take rowdy little newly-driving girls off the street and put them on the race track instead. (Recently we pulled one out of a ditch, and another we know hit and killed somebody pulling out of the bank.) I think it would make them safer drivers on the road by giving them an "outlet". My daughter has been chomping at the bit to get her driver's license for a while ...not to "go out" ...but to race.

George, yes. I ran 5 times and a 6-cylinder floored is CONSISTANTLY a 6-cylinder floored every single time. :lol (I'm good.)

Last night I also met a guy and a girl who are members of "Illegal Action Motorcycle Stunt Team" and these people are INSANE in a BIG way. (Ok, CRAZY as a FRIGGIN LOON!) He will ride his bike straight up, and I'm NOT talking "wheelie" here but VERTICAL, 70 MPH while she free stands on top on the light hands in the air. Off the bike he's so keyed up he can't stand still for 2 seconds ....and she's completely anesthetized 24 hours a day or something.

...SO today he called me and as it turns out by day he's a vinyl siding guy who wants customers, and we got to talking and her boyfriend's dead from the bike recently and this guy's had so many serious wrecks he's half sheet metal and screws now ....and she just keeps standing on top of that bike light. (She's 20 but I seriously doubt she will ever see 21.) If they do live anytime ...watch for these people. I only met 2, but they claim their are 8 more just like'em. (Sort of hard to believe.)



Am I too "wordy" tonight?

[r0ss]

"Illegal Action Motorcycle Stunt Team"

YEAH!

[agogoboots]

I worked my butt off today, 8 am until 11 pm. It's good ..but darn.

[agogoboots]

I can't find them on the web, Ross. He said they have a DVD and someone is trying to get them on ESPN. These are local people. I was shocked because I haven't ever heard of them. They are going to rent the track and have a show here soon. It'll probably be called "Death is Eminent".

[Toy Ranch]

I saw a demolition derby once in a small town on the Olympic Penninsula in Washington State. They had a "powder puff" division, where the real estate ladies and the hairdresser and a couple of waitresses went all smash'm up on each other. All of the grudges they'd held over the years were pouring out right there in the demo derby. They all had their business names on their cars... and the whole town was turned out.

[r0ss]

"powder puff" division, demolition derby

LOL! Go Go Boots and crashing metal! Yeah!

[agogoboots]

Crap. It's nothing like that, Toy.

Bracket Racing
In a heads-up drag race, the first car to the finish line wins. Bracket Racing simply put is Handicapped Racing. What I mean is, that it doesn't matter how quick or how slow your car is. You choose the e.t. your car can run consistently, and that's the number you write in shoe polish on your widow. That number tells the tower your handicap, and is usually called a "dialed-in" number, which is the time you think you are going to run.

Let's say you dial in a 14.20 et while your competitor dials a 13.00. Since his car is quicker by 1.20 seconds, you get that much of a head start. Theoretically, if both cars run right on to dial-ins, it should be a dead-even race.

To make it fair, racers cannot run quicker that their dial-ins. Suppose you'd run 14.19 on that 14.20, running .01 seconds quicker than your dial-in. This is called "breaking out", which means you lose. However, there's also the distinct and common possibility that both cars will break out. In this case, the car that breaks out the least wins. Let's say you ran a 14.19 with a 14.20 dial while your competitor ran 12.96 against his 13.00. Since he broke out by .04 and you broke out by only .01 second, you would win regardless of who arrived at the finish line first.

Bracket Racing's Golden Rule: Consistency Wins Races.

Christmas Tree: www.racewindsor.com/Artic...sTree.html (http://www.racewindsor.com/Articles2/ChristmasTree.html)

Scoring: www.racewindsor.com/Artic...eSlip.html (http://www.racewindsor.com/Articles2/TimeSlip.html)

[agogoboots]

http://hometown.aol.com/kdodgethis/images/drag-tree.gif

[agogoboots]

Hm. Lights don't work here. Power must be off.

[mewsicmama]

Sounds like you had a blast Terri. I used to drag race (but not on a track) and actually still do - yes, in my big beastly diesel truck - but only once in a while. Now, if I am in my DH's Crown Victoria it's really fun. You can pin people in the seat in that one.

Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down!

Hugs,

Shari

[Solar Destroyer]

Ah, yes... dear old braket racing... there's nothing like locking up the brakes and going through the traps sideways in an attempt to stay within your time.... and STILL breaking out! :lol

[Icandie]

Drag racing is fun. I used to do it all the time, then we'd stop just before the hill where the cops were waiting. :D

[10x]

"the cops were waiting.'

Hell who do you thing we would do quarter miles with???

[Icandie]

Hell who do you thing we would do quarter miles with??? :lol


When you're racing in a one horse town the cops dont' join. :b Damn them anyway. :lol

[wasabanker]

When I was a girl, the cops had the spy in the sky planes to catch speeders. To make their job easier, they painted white lines across the roads that were exactly 1/4 mile apart. It didn't take them long to realize what a mistake that was. I think it actually increased the speeding.

[agogoboots]

Boo.

[agogoboots]

Of course that didn't work.

[r0ss]

With glasses or without?

[agogoboots]

Better 1, or better 2? (Don't answer.)

www2.netdoor.com/~vannoys...photo3.JPG (http://www2.netdoor.com/~vannoys/terri2/photo3.JPG)

www2.netdoor.com/~vannoys...photo2.JPG (http://www2.netdoor.com/~vannoys/terri2/photo2.JPG)

Both are bad. *shrug* Business card mug shots.

I was just into the photo folder for something for Chynna.

[agogoboots]

Tell me if you saw them and I'll delete them.

[chynna]

:clap8

Cute pictures. I like the first one best, overall, I liked your smile best in the second one. I saved both. You knew I would. :) Thanks.

[r0ss]

I did see both. I always peek if I see a numbered pic, I always plug it in to see if there's more.

[agogoboots]

Go find your thread. :)

[chynna]

Sneak. I knew you did that, Ross. :lol

[chynna]

I brightened your pictures, Terri. I really like them both. :)

[agogoboots]

Thank you. :)
Being brighter sure can't hurt.